A new report by Barclays Capital suggests a dark side to the building boom in places like China, India, and Turkey.

This renovated apartment incorporates some interesting storage concepts for a cleaner, brighter space.

Considered too fragile to ever be played again, the recordings have been newly reconstructed ... and they are wonderfully creepy.

A new report finds reducing meat consumption is as important as tackling transportation emissions, but the politics are daunting.

What the Club Sandwich Generation looks like in Tokyo, where it is unusual to renovate instead of starting from scratch.

Sumitomo Forestry has a lot of wood to use up.

From the freshest possible eggs to rich compost to pets with personality, keeping backyard chickens would be a fun and educational foray in urban agriculture.

Built for two bookstore owners, this elegant structure doubles as a place to read and for guests to stay in.

Could Japan be attempting to shirk its obligations under the Kyoto Protocol by purchasing lower-grade carbon credits? Having pledged to cut emissions to 6% below 1990 levels, the country is now racing to make ends meet as

The Kentucky state Senate Agriculture Committee voted unanimously to approve legislation for legalizing industrial hemp in the state.

The themes of this stunning little house are copper, lots of natural light, and participation within an intentional tiny co-housing community.

In a tale of intrigue and derring-do, the crafty cephalopod slipped out of his enclosure and found his way to freedom.

Take a tour of two pioneering rooftop farms that could be the first signs of a growing and much needed movement in a rapidly urbanizing China.

I may have once mused on the environmental impact of my backyard chickens, but I have no doubt that, overall, keeping them has been both a wonderful experience and a significant contribution to improving our family's

Paris has the Promenade plantée and New York has The High Line, parks created on top of once-abandoned railway tracks. Now plans are afoot in Philadelphia to transform the Reading Viaduct into what its designers are

Awamaki Lab's fashion-forward collection successfully pairs Peruvian textiles with modern styles.

We matured our cities around the needs to cars. Now it's time to mature our streets around human, not machine, needs. We are all pedestrians.

As if to say 'sorry,' Kilauea softens its fury by tossing shimmery green olivine to the humble humans below.

It takes the controversial stance that more fish doesn't necessarily mean better fish.

This truly is just what we needed.

We are officially in love with Loch Pooltiel.

This one-of-a-kind treehouse is elevated above the ground to minimize its environmental impact.

Our photo of the day shows Mother Nature's flair for drama.

TreeHugger has been a fan of photographer Ed Burtynsky's work for a long time. We first spotted it here and have enjoyed watching him branch out into film with "Manufactured Landscapes", which was recently released in the US and the UK after debuting

A big book from a photographer who takes big pictures

Edward Burtynsky's collection called Water documents the role water plays in ecosystems, energy, cultural practices and disasters.

A TreeHugger hero visits our sister site.

Our photo of the day comes from the rainforest of Ecuador.

They are always fun to look at but do they make sense?

With an increase in salmonella cases this year, health officials are pointing the finger at hobby farmers, which isn't entirely fair.

What can you do with 1.285 bright green used uniforms? This was the brief the design students at Elisava school in Barcelona received by Urbaser, a local waste collection and urban

After successfully preventing the Bluegrass pipeline from running through their Convent's property, these nuns are speaking out against fracked gas.

This 10-minute video was shot by a man who was supposed to be at the MusiCafé bar that was engulfed by flames on july 6.

Well, this is pretty clever. If you're enticed by the idea of having fresh eggs straight from the backyard, but are not sure if you're ready to commit, RentTheChicken.com lets you rent some chickens!

By reclaiming precious metals from its 'urban mine' of obsolete electronics, Japan may be able to produce the medals for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics from recycled materials.

The successful launch of Sentinel-5P means scientists will soon have access to the most accurate monitoring yet of pollution and climate change related gases in earth's atmosphere

Studies show that taller buildings are simply less efficient, and don't even give you any more useable area. Why bother?

It was, in 1958, the worlds largest clear span. The Union Tank Car Building was 384 feet in diameter, 128 feet high. "It was just big and magnificent," Fuller biographer Jay Baldwin said to Kansas City Star reporter Mike Hendricks. "It was a

Allison Arieff reviews the Buckminster Fuller retrospective at the Whitney. She writes "His brain was constantly consumed with the serious issues of his day —

Buckminster Fuller 's 1933 Dymaxion car was a marvel. Architect Norman Foster tells Jonathan Glancey of the Guardian: "The Dymaxion had the same engine and transmission as the Ford Sedan of the time," says Foster, who worked

At the time of its construction the Union Tank Car Dome was the biggest clear span structure in the world. It was demolished in 2008 (see Another

Robert Rubin saves " the last, monumental prototype that Bucky was working on when he died".

A dozen units survive, according to Alastair Gordon in the New York Times

Savings in snow removal alone would have paid for it in ten years.

A lot of websites are saying so, but there is no evidence that it ever happened.

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day. Vegetarians do not.

Those of us who love everything Bucky are stunned too.

Sustainable designers everywhere honor you on this day.

The biggest one is that no matter how clever the design, it is the land that matters, not the house, and that nothing has changed in 70 years.

Some 200 bald eagles are scavenging the goods at Cedar Hills Regional Landfill and dumping the leftovers in suburban backyards.